Dr Naomi Scott
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
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Dr Naomi Scott
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Oh wow it’s suddenly all happening over here! Hello new followers! I occasionally post about Ancient Greek jokes (mostly rude) and ancient encyclopaedias (sadly almost never rude, but weird AF so I mostly forgive them).
I am so spectacularly excited about this. Come along it’s going to be amazing!
📢 EVENT REMINDER 📢
Join us on Thursday 18th to hear Jonathan Stamp talk about his experiences as a historical consultant on HBO's ROME!
🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute...
⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM.
📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
Join us on Thursday 18th to hear Jonathan Stamp talk about his experiences as a historical consultant on HBO's ROME!
🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute...
⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM.
📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I am so spectacularly excited about this. Come along it’s going to be amazing!
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UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
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Nearly two years of showing the realities of the gambles taken by these managers, ministers, and their consultants on the people who do the work of keeping the sector afloat: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo....
Yet outlets still fail to even consider that they might need to include staff in their coverage?
Yet outlets still fail to even consider that they might need to include staff in their coverage?
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Are unis about to collapse? 🎓
Ex-minister Jo Johnson, UUK's Vivienne Stern, Public First's Jess Lister and Russell Group's Sarah Stevens join PolHome's @matildamartin.bsky.social & @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the strain on higher education
Listen: podfollow.com/politicshome...
Ex-minister Jo Johnson, UUK's Vivienne Stern, Public First's Jess Lister and Russell Group's Sarah Stevens join PolHome's @matildamartin.bsky.social & @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the strain on higher education
Listen: podfollow.com/politicshome...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nearly two years of showing the realities of the gambles taken by these managers, ministers, and their consultants on the people who do the work of keeping the sector afloat: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo....
Yet outlets still fail to even consider that they might need to include staff in their coverage?
Yet outlets still fail to even consider that they might need to include staff in their coverage?
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🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In all seriousness if anyone on here knows anything about sailing ships and would be able to cast an eye over a short (c.100 word) attempt at a translation of a passage on masts, let me know! Or even just any good bibliography on ancient rigging. Anyone know anything about rigging? 😬
Today’s adventures with Pollux have me learning names for parts of boats. What I have mostly learned is that there are too many names for parts of boats.
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In all seriousness if anyone on here knows anything about sailing ships and would be able to cast an eye over a short (c.100 word) attempt at a translation of a passage on masts, let me know! Or even just any good bibliography on ancient rigging. Anyone know anything about rigging? 😬
Today’s adventures with Pollux have me learning names for parts of boats. What I have mostly learned is that there are too many names for parts of boats.
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today’s adventures with Pollux have me learning names for parts of boats. What I have mostly learned is that there are too many names for parts of boats.
Outstanding work.
"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Outstanding work.
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this seems related en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling...
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
this seems related en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling...
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Final days to apply: ICS Public Engagement Grants
Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences
Deadline 1 Nov: shorturl.at/BRqqU
Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences
Deadline 1 Nov: shorturl.at/BRqqU
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Final days to apply: ICS Public Engagement Grants
Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences
Deadline 1 Nov: shorturl.at/BRqqU
Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences
Deadline 1 Nov: shorturl.at/BRqqU
So JSTOR now offers me an AI research tool MAKE IT STOP I just want to read the sodding article with my brain is it really so much to ask no I do not want to ask your chatbot a question ARGH
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So JSTOR now offers me an AI research tool MAKE IT STOP I just want to read the sodding article with my brain is it really so much to ask no I do not want to ask your chatbot a question ARGH
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
I have *feelings* about the scribe who wrote Parisianus Grec. 2646. None of them good.
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I have *feelings* about the scribe who wrote Parisianus Grec. 2646. None of them good.
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The response of UK universities to this is, almost universally, to say "Tch, what can you do?"
Or in some cases, to very overtly decide that the thing to do is join in...
Or in some cases, to very overtly decide that the thing to do is join in...
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The response of UK universities to this is, almost universally, to say "Tch, what can you do?"
Or in some cases, to very overtly decide that the thing to do is join in...
Or in some cases, to very overtly decide that the thing to do is join in...
Today I found myself surprised at how little Pollux has to say about the weather. Surprisingly little weather-content in the Onomasticon tbh. Do you think my feelings that there should be More Words For Rain makes me English enough for the Tories not to deport me as a threat to cultural coherence? 🤔
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Today I found myself surprised at how little Pollux has to say about the weather. Surprisingly little weather-content in the Onomasticon tbh. Do you think my feelings that there should be More Words For Rain makes me English enough for the Tories not to deport me as a threat to cultural coherence? 🤔
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there is an æsthetics in all things
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
there is an æsthetics in all things
To counter the right wing hysteria about London as some kind of dystopian crime hellscape, today on my rush hour tube train someone noticed my bag was open and passed the message up the carriage till it reached me. I love London fuck the Tories and their bananas nonsense about my city.
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
To counter the right wing hysteria about London as some kind of dystopian crime hellscape, today on my rush hour tube train someone noticed my bag was open and passed the message up the carriage till it reached me. I love London fuck the Tories and their bananas nonsense about my city.
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I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.
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You cannot have a ‘university’ that isn’t wide-ranging and generalist. The whole point of a university is exactly that.
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
You cannot have a ‘university’ that isn’t wide-ranging and generalist. The whole point of a university is exactly that.
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How does Bridget Phillipson expect us to deliver “the world-class education students expect if they are going to charge the maximum tuition fee” if we are not supported and funded to do the world-class research that backs up and advances that teaching, and which UK academics are also know for? #UKHE
Higher fees, more regulation of teaching quality, less research for England. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/43wdRoe
University tuition fees in England to be linked permanently to inflation
Government promises ‘higher standards’ in higher education and ‘renewed focus’ on skills in long-awaited white paper
on.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
How does Bridget Phillipson expect us to deliver “the world-class education students expect if they are going to charge the maximum tuition fee” if we are not supported and funded to do the world-class research that backs up and advances that teaching, and which UK academics are also know for? #UKHE
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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I mentioned to an academic friend that I’d just come out of a committee meeting and she asked me if it’s a ‘having feelings’ committee or a ‘doing paperwork’ committee, and truly this is the greatest taxonomy of university administrative life I’ve ever heard, 10/10 no notes.
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I mentioned to an academic friend that I’d just come out of a committee meeting and she asked me if it’s a ‘having feelings’ committee or a ‘doing paperwork’ committee, and truly this is the greatest taxonomy of university administrative life I’ve ever heard, 10/10 no notes.
Can I start some kind of petition to outlaw motion sensor lights in libraries? This is literally the place I come to sit still for hours on end. Maybe it’s a ploy to force scholars to get up and stretch every 30 minutes?
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Can I start some kind of petition to outlaw motion sensor lights in libraries? This is literally the place I come to sit still for hours on end. Maybe it’s a ploy to force scholars to get up and stretch every 30 minutes?
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📣 Calling all PhD Students in Classics, Archaeology, Ancient History, and related disciplines 📣
Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event
22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe
Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event
22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📣 Calling all PhD Students in Classics, Archaeology, Ancient History, and related disciplines 📣
Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event
22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe
Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event
22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe
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October 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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